| Election Name: | 2016 Christchurch mayoral election |
| Country: | New Zealand |
| Type: | Presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2013 Christchurch mayoral election |
| Previous Year: | 2013 |
| Next Election: | 2019 Christchurch mayoral election |
| Next Year: | 2019 |
| Election Date: | 8 October 2016 |
| Turnout: | 90,137 (37.4%) |
| Party Name: | no |
| Candidate1: | Lianne Dalziel |
| Party1: | Independent |
| Popular Vote1: | 75,524 |
| Percentage1: | 83.86 |
| Candidate2: | John Minto |
| Party2: | Keep Our Assets |
| Color2: | 800000 |
| Popular Vote2: | 13,117 |
| Percentage2: | 14.57 |
| Mayor | |
| Before Election: | Lianne Dalziel |
| After Election: | Lianne Dalziel |
The 2016 Christchurch mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held on 8 October. The incumbent mayor, former Labour MP and government Minister Lianne Dalziel, who was first elected in the 2013 mayoral election was reelected, winning a commanding 83.9% of formal votes cast in the poll.[1] However New Zealand's local government elections in 2016 were characterized by a nationwide low participation rate which saw only 41.8% of enrolled voters cast a ballot in the election. Christchurch's turnout rate was particularly low with only 38.3% of enrolled voters actually voting, down from 52.2% in 2010.[2]
There were three candidates:[3] [4]
The left-leaning ticket, The People's Choice, represented on the outgoing city council by six councillors, declared that they would not stand a candidate in opposition to Dalziel – and councillor Paul Lonsdale, who came second in the 2013 mayoral campaign, acknowledged that Dalziel had done well in her first term and that he would not challenge her.[7]
The Press hosted a debate between Dalziel and Minto at the Cardboard Cathedral on 20 September,[8] moderated by its editor, Joanna Norris.[9] The following day, Guyon Espiner interviewed Dalziel and Minto on RNZ National's Morning Report.[10]
Generation Zero hosted a debate at the University of Canterbury's Ilam campus on 22 September 2016.[11] [12]
Source:[13]
| Dalziel | Minto | Hansen | Total valid votes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ward | % | % | % | ||||||
| Banks Peninsula | 2,395 | 78.96 | 612 | 20.18 | 26 | 0.86 | 3,033 | ||
| Burwood | 5,171 | 86.69 | 718 | 12.04 | 76 | 1.27 | 5,965 | ||
| Cashmere | 5,633 | 81.95 | 1158 | 16.85 | 83 | 1.21 | 6,874 | ||
| Central | 2,986 | 76.68 | 838 | 21.52 | 70 | 1.80 | 3,894 | ||
| Coastal | 4,694 | 80.69 | 1037 | 17.83 | 86 | 1.48 | 5,817 | ||
| Fendalton | 6,066 | 88.65 | 671 | 9.81 | 106 | 1.55 | 68,43 | ||
| Halswell | 6,039 | 87.85 | 715 | 10.40 | 120 | 1.75 | 6,874 | ||
| Harewood | 5,670 | 87.91 | 693 | 10.74 | 87 | 1.35 | 6,450 | ||
| Heathcote | 6,037 | 82.34 | 1208 | 16.48 | 87 | 1.19 | 7,332 | ||
| Hornby | 4,285 | 82.40 | 803 | 15.44 | 112 | 2.15 | 5,200 | ||
| Innes | 4,104 | 83.01 | 767 | 15.51 | 73 | 1.48 | 4,944 | ||
| Linwood | 4,015 | 78.79 | 987 | 19.37 | 94 | 1.84 | 5,096 | ||
| Papanui | 5,161 | 86.09 | 728 | 12.14 | 106 | 1.77 | 5,995 | ||
| Riccarton | 3,514 | 82.82 | 628 | 14.80 | 101 | 2.38 | 4,243 | ||
| Spreydon | 4,363 | 82.35 | 852 | 16.08 | 83 | 1.57 | 5,298 | ||
| Waimairi | 5,391 | 86.99 | 702 | 11.33 | 104 | 1.68 | 6,197 | ||
| Total | data-sort-value="Z" | 75,524 | 83.39 | 13,117 | 15.03 | 1,414 | 1.58 | 90,055 |